ncctm2013 - Using an Area Model to Multiply & Factor

First of all, thank you for attending our short discussion about approaching multiplying and factoring a little differently. We sincerely hope that you enjoyed it. Below you will find the materials that we shared with you from this presentation.

Please feel free to E-mail us with questions, comments, or to let us know how the lesson went! We're always looking to improve the investigations that we use.

Amelia.Slaughter@BCSEmail.org
Kyle.Silva@BCSEmail.org

Thanks again!
Amy and Kyle

Materials from our presentation at the NCCTM Annual Math Conference:

Here is a single folder of all of our presentation's files [.zip]:
- documentsforpresentation.zip
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Here is the "A lot of changing sides" investigation (With teacher notes included) [.pdf]:
- A lot of Changing Sides.pdf
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Here are diagrams for distributing the area [.doc]:
- Diagrams fo Distributing the Area.doc
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Here is the "Distributing the area" investigation (with teacher notes included) [.pdf]:
- Distributing the Area.pdf
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Here is a worksheet that might help students organize their work, when identifying key features of the factored and standard form [.doc]:
- Factored Form and Standard Form with Key Features Table 2.doc
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